Kathy Acker quotes - page 2

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating. (Kathy Acker)
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. View quote
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. View quote
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. View quote
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. View quote
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I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. View quote
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I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it. View quote
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I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. View quote
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Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. View quote
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I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive ... View quote
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"Why are they ashamed and miserable?" "They're repenting they're white. Any thinking human does it. Don't you read your own history books? So if you attack those miserable moderns or modernist, knight, you'll be making a miserable historical mistake. You will be preventing whites from hating their own whiteness." Don Quixote finally refused the dogs' attack on her attack: "Liberalism has never stopped me from doing anything", said the knight. (Kathy Acker)
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. View quote
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You know I've had work banned. View quote
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Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless. View quote
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Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it. View quote
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I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. View quote
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The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. View quote
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At a certain point I realized that the "I" doesn't exist. View quote
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He's telling me, "Your agenda is ..." and I'm saying, "My agenda? I don't have an agenda and I'm not sure who I am. Who am I?" View quote
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Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. View quote
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I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like. (Kathy Acker)
For 2.000 years, you've had the nerve to tell women who we are. View quote
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So if that little thing can do so much, who knows what else we can experience? View quote
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It's more like vision. I didn't know the body is such a visionary factory. Basically we grew up not wanting to know that we had bodies. View quote
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The German Romantics had to destroy the same bastions we do. View quote
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